Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1047
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/11/1966
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Gwydian House (62 & 62B)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Denbigh
Town
Locality
Denbigh - Town
Easting
305534
Northing
366283
Street Side
SE
Location
Set back slightly from the street line behind a narrow forecourt with low coped stone walls and surmounting, partly spear-headed railings; adjoining no.60 to the R.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C18 town house with minor late C19 alterations and possibly with earlier origins.
Exterior
Large Queen Anne or early Georgian town house of 3-storeys. Pebbledashed elevations (probably over brick) with medium-pitched slate roof and large rendered end chimneys. Symmetrical 3-bay facade with central entrance; 6-panel door, the upper panels glazed, with moulded and bracketed semi-circular wooden hood canopy. Sixteen-pane sash windows (unhorned) to the ground and first floors, those to the outer bays marginally larger. The upper floor has similar 16-pane windows breaking the eaves and contained within gabled dormers with simple decorative bargeboards. Unsympathetic modern glazing to the windows of the rear elevation.
Adjoining at right-angles to the rear is a contemporary 2-storey former service wing (formerly listed separately as no.62 B). Of C18 brick (painted) with slate roof and end chimney to L. Asymmetrical facade with 4 ground floor windows and 3 to the first floor. Modern plain-glazed casements, formerly listed as including a large sliding sash to the upper floor and 3 small-pane sashes to the ground floor. Off-centre boarded door with simple flat-roofed brick porch.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as an early C18 town house retaining good external character, including Georgian fenestration and doorway.
Group value with other listed items in Vale Street; one of a number of fine town houses in this street, historically regarded as the gentry and professional quarter of the town.
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